(Italia)

We had the opportunity to welcome Piero Passacantando, a multidisciplinary Italian artist with a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the College of Arts in San Francisco, California. With his talent and his charisma he left a great impact on San Pancho through his workshops:

 

Ferment promotion: new forms of social and cultural exchange, where children, youth and adults were involved in a series of significant conversations and exchanges, focusing on food preparation and production.  

The alchemical transformation of these scientific food processes, are a starting point for the exploration of possible social and individual changes. The attendees explored the visual and sculptural possibilities of the ingredients, on methods of fermentation and food preservation, (ferments and dehydration) as well as the exchange of recipes

–El Gallo, Imiari –

 

I paint you, you paint me:

“I place 2 easels in public places, white racks on each of them, two palettes, two brushes. I invite anyone who wants to participate to prepare a portrait of myself and exchange them with my own portrait.”  With this activity Piero explored “notions of intimacy between strangers dissolving the line between the artist and the visitor.”

“I intend to build a volatile but intimate experience that is sustained in the construction of a space of intimacy, equity and generosity”.

Children, youth and adults participated.  More than 110 portraits were exchanged.

-Plaza del Sol, Brotherhood Park, CasaClu de San Ignacio-

Beat Outside of the Box: Electronic music was created from a computer program aimed at a group of teenagers. They were taught to generate synthetic sounds, to sequence, to elaborate rhythm patterns, loops and melodies until they created their own songs.

-CoWork, Burrito Piñata-

Our friend Piero Passacantando presented his artistic portfolio at the University Center of the Coast in Puerto Vallarta to photography and fine arts students.  His extensive work consists of painting exhibitions in Europe and the United States. He also shared his career going through different disciplines and conceptual phases of his work. He focused his speech on his pictorial processes of abstraction and symbolic representation of geometry. In recent years he has focused on painting, as well as socially engaged art practices.

In his spare time he made sketches with pigments, clay and mud on materials such as wood, coconut and plants. In addition, he taught us how to make delicious ravioli, a typical Italian dish and his famous, Pieradillas, his version of our quesadillas made with sourdough.